My First Tour Guide!

I stayed with Kathleen for a couple of weeks when I first arrived. We found we have a lot in common - we're both (Northern!) East Coast girls and have the same personality type (INFJ - go to www.humanmetrics.com to take the Myers Briggs personality test, and then let me know what you are - it's so fascinating!). We share the same love of languages (we spoke French in our apt for 2 weeks - it was so good to get back into that) and enjoyed cooking together. Kathleen inspired me to have the courage to take a taxi (after all the crazy stories I've heard about taxi drivers here) and invited me to tag along and meet her local friends - that was fun! I told her friends that I really wanted to learn Arabic and so I had started studying with a CD program b/f I left the States. They asked me what words I had learned, so I started telling them... coffee, thank you, you're welcome... The one girl started laughing and told me to repeat them for her sister. They both started laughing and telling me I have an Egyptian accent. Ha! I think that's better than an American accent, so I'll go with that :)